I just finished pic related and absolutely loved it. I don't

>>8523368
bleak af

Read Twain's Letters From the Earth. Very similar.

>>8523368
https://youtu.be/BpaRouocBes

>>8523368
Yeah, I loved this too, OP. Try his Autobiography as well as "What Is Man?"

>>8524214
Thanks, it looks good.
>>8524561
Creepy, but I liked it.
>>8524645
I've never really cared for biographies but I might check it out. "What Is Man" looks good though.

I legitimately never knew that Mark Twain wrote stuff like this. I only knew about his books that we read in highschool and a some of his other popular novels. These are way better.

The Story of the Good Little Boy is a good follow up

>>8524729
Thanks, that was an interesting read.

>>8524713

>I legitimately never knew that Mark Twain wrote stuff like this.

Not a lot of people do. Most of us know only the "corncobby" Twain from Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. But he had a dark side, and it really came out later in life.

As for his autobiography, it's got a bunch of great anecdotes and musings. It's not like other biographies I've read. It's slow going at first, though.

if you like Melville, I remember finding the greasy-bleakness of Mysterious Stranger fairly similar to Pierre and the Ambiguities

you can just feel their overwhelming disappointment in humanity